KIEV, May 18 - Velyka Kyshenia, one of Ukraine??™s biggest retail chains, plans to boost sales to more than $1 billion in 2008 from $440 million that are expected in 2006 and $232 million reported in 2005.

"We're planning that we should end 2008 with sales worth more than $1 billion," Roman Lunin, the chairman of the company's supervisory board, said Thursday.